I donāt suppose youād like to share that bit of software. If you donāt have a flavor library rich in the most popular flavor brand you donāt get many returns from a what can I make search.
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I remembered I had a ton of one ounce condiment cups and lids from Smart and Final from another project and they are ideal for tiny batches for flavor chasing. I put 20 drops of water = 1 eyedropper and a single drop of flavoring in and that is my nose sample. I can go back and sniff that cup at need until my brain knows on itās own what that version of Bavarian Cream smells and tastes like. If Iām smart Iāll enter my taste notes with the flavor on my list as to how strong or weak it was, Sweet, Sour, Bitter and anything else that comes to mindā¦ I donāt have the ultra sharp nose or the flowing language some of the folks can describe a flavor with but we work with what we have and make the best of it.
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Iāve got 15 tiny cups of testers trying to clone my All Day Vape juice and got new flavors today and Iāll blend up 10 or more tiny rounds trying to nail this flavor closer. 3.5 grams VG .5 PG and I flavor by drop up to 20%=1 gram for my shotgun approach to figuring out the ratios on this juice.
So my advice is a shitload of tiny batches as Iāve got to many 30ml and 100ml batches of mix I should pour down the drain as I fear there is no rescuing itā¦ No Chocolate Pudding Dirty Socks smell just way to much maple syrup before I learned not to follow most of the versions of this juice I find.
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Most of my recipes from here are quite usable even if I have to make extensive substitutions on flavor brands. Iāve yet to create any real duds except my own harebrained concoctions and they get fewer as I get more practice. In another a decade I might actually know a thing or three.
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What scares me the most about mixing flavors without an established recipe is that some flavors seem to chemically combine to form the oddities described above. Iāve tried small batches of what seemed like excellent mixes only to have them come out like a shot of Febreeze on the tongue or grass clippings with cinnamon. I thought I read in at least one forum post (maybe about a unicorn milk clone) that someone was actually discussing the wet chemistry that was happening when all things combinedā¦@MixedUp2 if you really want to venture into your own mixes, put a drop of flavor in a shot glass and add some water to get an idea of what it tastes like. Also, saw a post similar to what @Bob_Bitchen wrote above. Make a 100 drop mix with no Nic. Basically each drop is 1%. So if you want to try something that is 3 flavors at 5% each (15 drops of flavor total) and you prefer around 60/40 VG/PG (assume flavors are mostly PG) add another 25 drops of PG and 60 drops of VG. Sounds tedious, but Iād rather go that route than waste flavors.
This here is why some fall so far down the rabbit hole, trying to find that flavoring we prefer. I have made hundreds and hundreds of single flavor mixes to test flavor and strength, it is a total pain in the ass but it pays off in the long run. And of course even after one find the flavor they like the best some company puts out new ones, by this time we are so far down the rabbit hole that we must try those too, just to be sure.
Once you do find the flavorings you like it is pretty easy to mix up something you like, if you have gone through all the testing stuff. Almost every time i skip this step i regret it.
Inspiration comes from many things, dessert recipes, drink recipes, tv shows, candy, etc. Ill quit babbling now, hehe.
Of course if you ever need some help or have questions we are always here. 
You can come to the West side of Michigan but youāll freeze your ass off.
sorry, but when i read this i truly lol. i know what you mean all to well friend
This is precisely why this forum and the recipe site is so damn cool. Because if I want to make something all I have to do is decide what flavors the recipe has, then go check out what others here have used these flavors at and go with that. Once I decide I need say Peanut Butter in the mix, I go looking at who has comments about PB, what brand, etc, while grabbing the percentages used. Then decide from that range what my PB ratio to other ingredients needs to be.
Stap me vitals, what a great load of advice. Thanks kindly everyone, I really appreciate your support.
@Alisa So I googled Granbury and clicked real estate. Sheesh - it looks GORGEOUS! You lucky person. 
Gorgeous also applies to your Kennedy Clone which I have just mixed. Steep time: Dream on!
More thanks to you for that!
@Saxon2 We shall form a club just for people just like us. 
Weāll call it the ELR Dirty Socks Chicken Club 
Sure Bob, Iād be happy to. Be warned though, itās not prime time stuff, just an old Linux hackās Python script so a bit of āaudience participationā will be necessary. PM me your email if thatās OK. Screenshots here.
@louiesquared Good advice. Thank you. I seriously tried learning flavours 2 years ago. Then I moved house. Twice. Canāt remember anything for more than two minutes now. Getting old!
Well that rings a very big bell. Some experiments I tried got destroyed in seconds just by one drop of something I thought would be fairly innocuous. Others started well and then fell off a cliff. And the time it all takes ā¦
Febreeze, grass, cinnamon - howled when I saw that! Spot on. For me, steamy laundry! Disgusting. (Discovered it was due to VG - anything over 40% VG for me is not going to end happily. Needs so much flavour to overcome the laundry it becomes unpalatable. Never found anyone else with this sensitivity to VG. )
Thank you so much Ken. Great to have support on tap. I appreciate your advice too. I must summon the strength to follow it. Rabbit hole? Oh Iām well through the looking glass too ā¦
Yours in bows, frills and Mary Janes ā¦
Oh, the postman* has just arrived with three new flavours. The excitement growsā¦ what can I make now?
Thanks again everyone.
*I think he liked the MJs 
Grandbury?! Iām in east land
As a sidenote about testing flavors, some people are really touchy about certain flavors. For me it was Coconut Extra, took me a long time to realize that that flavor was throwing my juice off and had to find another flavor to work for me.
I cant use Coconut Extra over 0.25%. Anything more and it tastes nasty. It tastes like Mold to me.
If you havenāt found a replacement as of yet, you may wish to try RF Coconut SCā¦ I have found it not to be causing problems with my mixes as Coconut extra did for me.
Thanks for the heads up. I have been thinking about giving a few RF flavors a try. I will add the Coconut to my list.
Itās hit and miss when making flavors from scratch, Iāv been doing this for almost a year and iām still fine tuning, and playing with a strawberry cheese cake recipe. Understanding how flavors work together comes naturally to me because of a life long interest in cooking. That being said some times youāll get winners,or find a compliment that brings out the best in a flavor (for example a touch of plum in a blue berry heavy juice can give it a sweet undertone with out killing the blue berry but iām talking like 0.2 g of plum to 4.6g of blueberry.)
Yet other times youāll be sure a flavor mix will be amazing and instead you get hot trash ( a great example is I tried to make a hazlenut coffee that ended up tasting like garlicā¦iām not kidding I made a raw garlic vape somehow!) My recommendation would be to order some wild flavors every time you restock, Iāv had luck with honey suckle from TPA and also found a pinch of their cherry blossom can really help a sweet tea. Itās all about throwing yourself at the wall and seeing if your juice stick,you have to get uncomfortable to make good juice. Hell for every recipe im happy with there were 20 I hated (donāt even get me started on my peach cucumber menthol, iām on version 13 on that and iām still not happy with it T_T
Anyhow sorry for the text wall, just thought iād chip in and give my two cents, donāt be afraid to try your hand at what ever comes to mind.Also might be worth looking up the flavor profiles of your favorite main stream e juices and trying to clone them, that how i got a better idea of how to make my own.
I feel that, took me forever to realize that the DX Bavarian cream (TPA) I was using mixed with the Cheescake Graham Crust (TPA) made and cheese cake flavor taste dusty. ended up replacing it with a touch of sweet cream
Until I started using Flavourart, it was nothing but mls upon mls of yuck for the first couple of years.
Didnāt realize the year on this thread. My apologies.
Two things!
First, you donāt have to apologize for a necro here. If itās on topic, full steam ahead. Besides, you bumping a post may well help another newbie find some great information (for instance @Ken_O_Whereās post above) that might otherwise be missed.
Second, you can also edit your posts! (In case you werenāt aware.)
For example, instead of a second apology post, you could have simply clicked on your previous post (expand the post tools, by clicking on the three dots) selected the pencil (to edit it) and add whatever you felt necessary. 
@RocketPuppy You donāt have to apologise for anything my friend! 2 years on and my ADV is still your RY4 - followed closely by @Alisa 's DaMommaās Delight ( when Iām not feeling quite so decadent! ).
Thanks @Sprkslfly. Wasnāt awake enough to edit.
@MixedUp2 - thatās fantastic to hear! Iām still looking for my adv.
Iām a Flavourart fan myself. One of the things I love is they mix well and donāt take a lot of effort to make great mixes you can enjoy. I started playing around with FA in the beginning because they had none of the things I was trying to avoid.